Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists

Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane.
17 December 2022, 18:00 PM

EU, Azerbaijan launch Black Sea power link

Azerbaijan yesterday agreed to supply the European Union with electricity via a subsea cable, inking a deal in Bucharest as the bloc diversifies energy supply away from Russia following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
17 December 2022, 18:00 PM

2-month-old dies

A two-month-old baby was recovered dead in the early hours of Friday from a migrant wreckage off Lesbos, a coroner told AFP yesterday.
17 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Tunisia votes

Polls yesterday opened in a Tunisian parliamentary election that will tighten President Kais Saied’s grip on power, capping what his opponents denounce as a march to one-man rule over a country that shook off dictatorship in 2011.
17 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Nature at risk of ‘cascading’ species extinction: study

Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday.
17 December 2022, 18:00 PM

26 protesters facing execution in Iran: Amnesty

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on Iran to end its executions of protesters in a letter published on Friday.
17 December 2022, 05:13 AM

Pentagon received hundreds of UFO reports in 2022

The Pentagon said on Friday that it has received hundreds of reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, since establishing an office dedicated to the phenomenon in July..But the new reports do not point to evidence of alien life, officials said.."I have not seen anything in tho
17 December 2022, 03:12 AM

Reports On Musk: Twitter suspends accounts of journos

Twitter suspended Thursday accounts of more than a half-dozen journalists who had been writing about the company and its new owner Elon Musk.
16 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine

Russia fired more than 70 missiles during yesterday’s morning rush hour in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine since the start of the war, forcing Kyiv to introduce emergency power cuts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said.
16 December 2022, 18:00 PM

2 killed in Russian strike on south Ukraine city: governor

A Russian rocket hit a residential building today in the southern Ukraine city of Kryvyi Rig, killing two people and injuring five, the region's governor said.
16 December 2022, 09:14 AM

4 people 'critical' after crush at London concert venue

Four people were critically injured and four others were hospitalised following a crush at a concert venue in south London, police said today..Police and other emergency services were called to the O2 Academy in Brixton at 21:35 pm (2135 GMT) on Thursday following reports "that a large num
16 December 2022, 08:47 AM

10 killed in fire near Lyon in eastern France

Ten people, including five children aged three to 15, were killed in a fire in the early hours of today in a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin, near the French city of Lyon, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
16 December 2022, 08:01 AM

COP15 talks teeter on brink

Hopes of sealing a historic “peace pact with nature” at a United Nations biodiversity summit will soon rest on the world’s environment ministers, arriving in Montreal for the final phase of talks that began yesterday.
15 December 2022, 18:00 PM

US is ‘all in’ on Africa’s future

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced an agreement aimed at bolstering trade ties between the United States and Africa after years in which the continent took a back seat to other U.S. priorities as China made inroads with investments and trade.
15 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Ukrainian forces shell Russian-controlled east

Ukrainian forces staged their heaviest shelling attack in years in the country’s Russian-controlled east yesterday, Moscow-installed officials said, as both sides ruled out a Christmas truce in the nearly 10-month-old war.
15 December 2022, 18:00 PM

ICRC fears huge ‘suffering’ in 2023

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday “an enormous level of suffering” awaits the world in 2023 with famine spreading.
15 December 2022, 18:00 PM

UK nurses stage unprecedented walkout

UK nurses today staged an unprecedented one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions, despite warnings it could put patients at risk.
15 December 2022, 08:46 AM

No Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine: Russia

Russia ruled out a "Christmas ceasefire" after nearly 10 months of war in Ukraine and rejected a call by Kyiv to start withdrawing troops by Christmas as a step to end Europe's biggest conflict since World War Two.
15 December 2022, 07:59 AM

Iran expelled from UN women's rights body over crackdown

The UN Economic and Social Council on Wednesday voted to oust Iran from the its Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), citing Tehran's violation of the rights of women and girls. .Iran has been rocked by nationwide anti-government protests, to which it has responded with a bloody crack
15 December 2022, 03:45 AM

5 killed in attack on Colombia-Ecuador border

Gunmen killed five people in southern Colombia on the border with Ecuador, authorities said on Wednesday.
15 December 2022, 02:35 AM